Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia
Author(s): Geoffrey Blainey
In this bestselling book master story-teller Geoffrey Blainey takes us on an absorbing guided tour of a vanished Australia. Covering the years from the first gold rush to World War I, Blainey paints a fascinating picture of how our forebears lived - in the outback, in towns and cities, at sea and on land.
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Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia's most significant and popular historians. He has written some 36 full-length books including The Tyranny of Distance, Triumph of the Nomads, Black Kettle and Full Moon, A Short History of the 20th Century, Sea of Dangers, A Short History of Christianity and the best-selling A Short History of the World. Professor Blainey held chairs in economic history and then in plain history at the University of Melbourne for 21 years. He was a delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention and also chaired various Commonwealth government bodies, including the Australia Council, the Literature Board, the Australia-China Council, and the National Council for the Centenary of Federation. He is one of the few Australians whose biography appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Australia
- : 0.449
- : 01 August 2004
- : 230mm X mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Geoffrey Blainey
- : Paperback
- : 8-Oct
- : 994
- : 504
- : World history: c 1750 to c 1900; Social & cultural history